{"id":702119,"date":"2026-07-20T20:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:06:18","slug":"laurent-mendy-hearts-agree-deal-for-forest-green-rovers-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702119\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent Mendy: Hearts agree deal for Forest Green Rovers captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts have agreed a deal to sign Forest Green Rovers captain Laurent Mendy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder has been on the Tynecastle side&#8217;s wanted list for the past two transfer windows, with the club having had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp809rrwdxxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bid turned down<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a deal has now finally been struck for the 29-year-old French-born player, who is set to become Hearts&#8217; 10th summer signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mendy joined Forest Green in 2025 from Macclesfield and played 47 games last season for the English National League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks regarding personal terms are now under way as Hearts prepare for the first leg of their Champions League second-round qualifier against Sturm Graz on Tuesday (19:30 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearts have agreed a deal to sign Forest Green Rovers captain Laurent Mendy. The midfielder has been on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}